Ta-ta London, Olá Rio
- The London Olympics Come to a Show-Stopping Close
- Olympics closing ceremony: A long goodbye to the Games
- Bring on Rio! Britain closes 'happy and glorious' Olympics with pop extravaganze
- Social media proves a force in consuming Olympics--"The London Olympics may well be remembered as the event that drove home the power of social media -- partly to the chagrin but mostly to the benefit of NBC, which controlled images of the games in the United States."
- McKayla Maroney Not Impressed Meme Reaches Her Own Instagram
- Digital Diary: How GIFs Became the Perfect Medium for the Olympics--Check out 10 unforgettable moments from the Olympic closing ceremonies. NYT
- The Ancient Roots of Iran's Wrestling and Weightlifting Olympic Dominance
- BBC London Olympics 2012: Nature versus Nurture
- British Olympics Team Mime To Queen For Adidas
- After Medal Haul, Phelps Plans to Work on His Golf Game--"After 22 Olympic medals, 18 of them gold, Michael Phelps has a new goal: improve his golf game." NYT
- Past Olympic Stars: Where Are They Now?
- 2012 Summer Olympics: London's biggest embarrassments Salon
- IOC withdraws gold medal from shot put athlete Nadzeya Ostapchuk
- Japan's Olympic soccer loss brings out the Twitter racism--Did anyone call out Spain for the Spanish-American War after the basketball finals?
- Olympic anti-China conspiracy afoot? Some Chinese think so
- And the Olympic Gold for Whining Goes to ... NYT
- NBC Criticized for Interrupting Closing Ceremony to Preview 'Animal Practice'
- How NBC and Matthew Perry Ruined the Night
- NBC commentary of the London Olympics Opening Ceremony deemed offensive
- Boxing: NBC asked to cease ringside commentary
- Olympic Commenters Are Dicks
Sports
- New taekwondo rule: Don't kick hard Salon
- Ten things I learned about football today: A nerd's perspective
- Mark Cuban Calls Out Skip Bayless
- The Alabama Face Guy: Los Angeles
- The Legend Of Speedo Guy
- Best Body Parts in Sports
- Oona Kivelä--Guaranteed to raise ratings if ever pole dancing becomes an Olympic sport.
